Quality of Life– category –

Since being diagnosed with cancer at the age of twenty-five, I have had to rebuild my life more than once. Surviving illness. Starting over in New York. Returning to Japan and facing the realities of caregiving. Looking back, each chapte...

The day I heard the words, “You have cancer,” I thought my life was over. For the first time, I truly understood that life has an ending. In my twenties, death felt like something distant—a reality that belonged to another time, another ...

There was a time when I truly believed that life would work itself out. As long as I lived honestly and did my best, good things would eventually come my way. But life can be both beautiful and cruel. Sometimes, without warning, it pushe...